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She turned on him, her tearful, convulsed face uncovered, her frizzes tossing, as bold and unrestrained in her wrath as was Minna Eddy, who came forward to her side as she spoke. "You needn't come wheedlin' around me," she cried. "I don't believe a word of it, not a word. I'll believe it when I see the color of your cash.
Little, dark man with a queer, soft voice, like a woman wheedlin'! Too d d innocent, and I ought to have known it. Don't you ever be wheedled by a woman, Mr. Cartoner. Got a match?" For the captain's cigar had gone out. But he felt quite at home, as he always did this unvarnished gentleman from the sea and asked for what he wanted. "Well, to make a long yarn short, I took the cases.
"I never was any hand for puttin' things off, whether it's work or punishment; and I've never got my own consent to this way o' skeerin' people with a hell and wheedlin' 'em with a heaven way off yonder in the next world.
W'en 'e makes up 'is mind to a thing you know 'e sticks to it, for 'e's a tough un; an' 'e's got sitch a wheedlin' sort o' way with 'im that I can't 'elp givin' in a'most. So, you see, it'll be better for both of us that I should go away.
I was harkin' back to the little white hen and Nella-Rose. There ain't much chance to have a livin' pet up to Greyson's place. Anything fit to eat is et. Pete drinks the rest. But once Nella-Rose came totin' up here on a cl'ar, moonlight evenin' with somethin' under her little, old shawl. 'Jim' she says wheedlin' and coaxin' 'I want yo' to keep this here hen fo' me.
It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. "Is it home ye are? Mercy to goodness!" So it's into the wather ye were?" I admitted it. "Hannah?" I said softly. "What then?" "Does mother know about the boat?" "Now don't ye be wheedlin'."
His wretched sensations at the pouring of a storm of tears from the exhausted creature, caused Arabella to rise and say to Mrs. Chump kindly, "Now let me take you to bed." But such a novel mark of tender civility caused the woman to exclaim: "Oh, dear! if ye don't sound like wheedlin' to keep me blind." Even this was borne with. "Come; it will do you good to rest," said Arabella.
"Miss Cynthia, darlin'," said Ellen, "if it was made of flint I was, wouldn't he bring the tears out of me with his wheedlin' an' coaxin'? An' him such a fine young gintleman! And whin he took to commandin' like, sure I couldn't say no to him at all at all. 'Take the card to her, Ellen, he says didn't he know me name!
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